Linguistic features of Turkic-language written monuments of India in the 18–19th centuries

UDC 811.512.1`2
DOI 10.20339/PhS.6-25.003

Saitbattalov Iskander R.,

Deputy Director

Institute of History and Public Administration

Ufa University of Science and Technology

e-mail: saitbattalovir@uust.ru

The article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of Turkic-language written monuments of the late Mughal Empire, created on the territory of modern India and Pakistan in the 18–19th centuries. The poetic and prose works of Aghar Khan Dida, Insha Allah Khan Insha, Muhammad Hasan Qatil and Khwaja Imami, created at that time, have not previously been the object of special linguistic research. The article contains an analysis of the graphic-phonetic, morphological, syntactic, lexical features of their texts, and considers the role of these features in the formation of the stylistics of the monuments. Using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, a comparison of the linguistic features of the monuments with the Turkic languages of other areas is carried out, primarily with the Ottoman language of Asia Minor and the Middle East and the Chagatai language of Central Asia. Based on the results of the comparison, a range of typical and unique linguistic features characteristic of the Turkic-language written monuments of India in the 18–19th centuries are determined, and conclusions are made about the role of intercultural and interlingual interaction in the formation of their linguistic appearance.

Keywords: Mughal Empire, interlingual interaction, Turkic languages, Turkic languages of India, Chagatai language, languages of India

This research was funded by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (RSF, project No. 23–78–01061, https://rscf.ru/project/23-78-01061/)

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